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From the vault This day in tech history, November 2
- 1920
KDKA starts scheduled broadcasting
Westinghouse went on the air with the Harding-Cox election returns at 100 watts, from a shed on a factory roof in East Pittsburgh. Five men kept it going for 18 hours, 6 p.m. to noon.
- 1988
The Morris worm hits the internet
Robert Morris's worm took down about 6,000 of the roughly 60,000 computers then online. He got three years' probation and 400 hours of community service.
- 2021
Killed on this Day: Facebook Face Recognition shutdown announced
Meta announced it was shutting down the Face Recognition system on Facebook and deleting more than a billion people's facial recognition templates. Photos would stop recognizing you automatically, whether or not you had enjoyed it.
Then and now
1977: A megabyte of memory: about $31,000. Today: under a penny. Apple charged $1,340 to take an Apple II from 4K to 48K; Corsair sells 32 GB of DDR4 for $259.99, October 2026.
